Recent content by renegate326

Why not ? Poland,Norway are you serious?

Rafale won in India for 126+63 fighters and will most probably win in UAE for 60 fighters soon . It had been selected as the best fighter in Korea in 2002 but ultimatelythe F-15 won. Also in Switzerland it was ahead of the competition but the Swiss chose the Swedish SAAB...

As far as Air France is concerned I don't think so but BA might have made some profits but only few years . The reason for this was the number of business and finance people and celebrities travelling between NY-London was far more than NY-Paris route.

Sorry mate I missed post.. Regarding CRT only one name emerges everywhere you look as the pioneer and inventor , especially in France and its the German Ferdiand Braun but anyway everybody is entitled to his or her opinion .Yes CXAM-1 is generally considered one of the...

You assumed correct I didn't want to give real credit . From 1865 when the Scottish physicist Maxwell presented his theory of the Electromagnetic Field until 1940 when Randall and Boot improved the effectiveness of multi cavity magnetron , all the game changing...

Really, so maybe you can enlighten me why both Americans and Russians ( TU-144 was a huge failure) have failed to build a Concorde back in 1960's ? lack of technology or know to do so ? they were competing with each other for the moon, but only the tiny little BAC/SUD AVIATION has...

You are already doing better mate oh sorry in your dreams perhaps . Its wake up time ! Britain will this week reveal another substantial increase in the cost of building its two new aircraft carriers, declaring that total funding for the programme will rise by another £800m to £6.2bn...

Yes ,the US offered the Polaris SLBM technology to France as well but unlike the Brits, De Gaulle said No thanks, we will develop our own system. It doesn't mean France never buys US made defence equipment, France bought Grumman Hawkeye Early warning aircraft for the carrier CDG...

In 1886 when the German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves ,the race started . Germans and the Americans were in the forefront . German engineer Christian Hülsmeyer invents in 1904 "telemobiloscope" the first practical radar tested . 1921 the US-american...

I don't think any Mig-21 exceeded Mach 2.2 anytime before 1958 .. Not in my atlas anyway.

I am not so sure. France developed its own SLBM submarines and the missiles without any foreign technology in early 1970's which was acknowledged even by the Americans as great achievement . Britain received everything served on a golden plate from the US. First nuclear sub reactor for...

No he didn't .

It was the German Hermann Ostrich who came over to France and worked on the ATAR engine for Mirage III. Yes, but who didn't benefit from German skills after WW2?? You Americans built your first jets in accordance with Whittle design but later switched to German axial flow engines after...

Yes ,but the US never informs its allies before it takes such actions , suddenly a squadron of F-111's would like to enter the French airspace to bomb Libya . The French must have asked where the hell they came from ? the answer was clearly NO ...Well done Mitterrand ! if you...

Not as simple as you put ..Americans ,the Johnson administration were delighted to see France leaving NATO so that they could impose their view and policy freely without opposition .